Recaps

Li Qing uncovered the Blood Demon Sect’s plot to destroy the Demon Suppression Palace and spread monsters through Dragon Path City while advancing his cultivation and taking control of Qian Jinchuan. The arc ended with Zhou Xinglong trapped in a nightmare after trying to curse Li Qing.

• Zhou Suhua accepted the Barbarian King’s plan and hid a Blood Demon Seed intended to destroy the Demon Suppression Palace.
• Li Qing investigated the Huanzhen Sect ruins and found the Five Sparrow Red Copper formula, then negotiated a profitable deal with Jixia Academy to supply Five Qi Bronze.
• Li Qing broke through to a Dao Body, investigated his Human Tribulation, and learned it threatened Dragon Path City and people connected to him.
• Li Qing discovered that Zhou Suhua and the Blood Demon Sect planned to destroy the Demon Suppression Palace and release Anomalies into the city.
• Li Qing found and controlled a grotesque lump of flesh, then learned that Blood Demon Son planned to grow it into a Flesh Giant Tree and spread Flesh Seeds throughout Dragon Path City.
• Li Qing made an Invisibility Talisman, let Qian Jinchuan steal a hair, then ambushed him and used the River of Humanity to make him obey.
• Zhou Xinglong hired Curse Daoist to curse Li Qing, but Li Qing killed Curse Daoist and took his possessions.
• Li Qing ordered Qian Jinchuan to watch Zhou Xinglong, studied the curse techniques, and watched Zhou Xinglong fall into a nightmare in which Li Qing became a monster.

Li Qing helped bring down the Blood Demon Sect’s assault on Dragon Path City, then secretly established a Supreme Dao Foundation while powerful lineages searched for him. He advanced his cultivation and fought off eerie threats as he prepared for the approaching calamity.

• Li Qing manipulated Fang Yaoguang into uncovering the Demonic Path’s crimes, while he investigated the Library Tower and learned that the Master planned to use the Blood Demon Seed against the attackers.
• When the Blood Demon Seed became a Flesh Tree and attacked Dragon Path City, Li Qing seized control of it, shattered Blood Demon Son’s spiritual imprint, and helped the Master defeat the Demonic Path.
• Zhou Suhua went after Li Qing, but the Master killed him, and Li Qing secretly forged a Supreme Dao Foundation amid the aftermath of the battle.
• Li Qing concealed his breakthrough as the great lineages searched for the new Foundation Establishment prodigy, while the Master warned that a chaotic age and unprecedented tribulation were beginning.
• Elder Xu let Li Qing study the True Method Realm books in the Library Tower, and Li Qing used the Jade Tablet to record their manuals and spells.
• Li Qing began weaving mana structures, improved his Hundred Shadows Technique, and summoned Anomalies to harvest Essence Stones for his cultivation.
• Li Qing used an Evil-Extinguishing Talisman to drive away the phantom woman, then hunted more Anomalies and collected 301 Essence Stones.
• As an unseen presence called to him, Li Qing resisted its influence and later told Elder Zheng that he had encountered Aberrant Contamination four times in the past month.

Li Qing found Ye Baizhen’s tomb and used its dangers to seize the Soul-Fixing Pearl, expose the Corpse Repository Temple’s scheme, and gain influence within the Dragon Palace. He returned to Jixia Academy, where Elder Zheng’s death and the spread of rebellion drew him into new investigations.

• Li Qing left Jixia Academy for White Dragon Shoal, avoided a ghostly pleasure boat, and searched the Taihe River for Ye Baizhen’s tomb.
• Li Qing located the tomb through its altered water veins, then led the Carp King and his soldiers inside, where traps and illusions killed or weakened many of them.
• Ao Ming entered the tomb with his Yakshas, and Li Qing let the tomb’s dangers weaken both Ao Ming’s party and the Carp King before intervening.
• Li Qing recorded the tomb’s books and learned that Ye Baizhen had been manipulated into becoming a water corpse as part of a long scheme.
• Li Qing stole the Soul-Fixing Pearl, subdued Ao Ming and the Carp King, and ordered them to report that the Corpse Buddha Temple had built the tomb to create a water corpse.
• Li Qing broke the Hundred Corpse Venerable’s imprint within the pearl, refined it for protection from Aberrant Contamination, and watched the awakened water corpse spread black mist through the river.
• Li Qing supplied Ao Ming and the Carp King with armor and instructions, while Ao Dong drove off Hundred Corpse Venerable and gave Ao Ming authority over White Dragon Shoal.
• Li Qing returned to Jixia Academy, repaired two golden automatons, and then found Elder Zheng’s severed head as the academy went under martial lockdown, and he began investigating the city’s gangs amid growing rebellion and refugees.

Li Qing built an information network, investigated the Anomalies in Dragon Path City, and left Jixia Academy after uncovering the Longevity Fruit Tree within the Demon Suppression Palace. On his journey toward Two Realms City, he disrupted a plot against the North Province King, confronted dangers on the river, and learned that a Ghost Spirit was stirring up Anomalies in Panyang Lake.

• Li Qing sold armor, puppets, and Ghost Spirit Lamp Oil through his Shadow Paper Doll, then formed the Myriad Things Golden Body Curse and began gathering information about Dragon Path City.
• Li Qing recruited Cao Dechun, Wei Yuguo, Zhang Blackskin, and Fang Dewen, then used the Hundred Things Eye network to monitor the city as decapitation Anomalies struck.
• Li Qing investigated the monsters impersonating people and discovered that Fang Yaoguang and Li Dewen had been killed, while Chen Yilong began suspecting a hidden Dream Black Hand.
• Li Qing learned that the Hundred Schools had prepared Li Qiankun to claim the North Continent, then left Jixia Academy after the North Province King killed his monstrous third son and destroyed two Anomalies.
• Li Qing entered the North Province King’s dream and exposed evidence about Li Qiankun’s parentage, prompting the King to kill Li Qiankun and take control of the army.
• Li Qing traveled by merchant ship, helped Shang Xuewen defeat the Netherworld Ghost Ship’s Anomaly, and strengthened his spirit with the Blood Demon Seed’s spiritual source.
• Li Qing sent Shadow Paper Dolls to investigate Panyang Lake, where passengers began sleepwalking toward the deck and Shang Xuewen killed an Anomaly beneath the water.
• Li Qing consulted the Jade Tablet and learned that Ghost Spirit of the Chujiang Ghost King Palace was raising Anomalies to destabilize Panyang Lake and ensnare Panyang City’s cultivators.